NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Researchers using the Cepheid GeneXpert human papillomavirus test in Papua New Guinea have shown that patient-collected samples produce results similar to physician-collected samples.

The study, published last week in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology, adds to a growing body of evidence supporting the use of self-collected specimens for HPV and other infectious disease testing in both the developing and developed world.

This webinar will provide a comparison of several next-generation sequencing (NGS) approaches — including short-read 16S, whole-genome sequencing (WGS), and synthetic long-read sequencing technology — for use in microbiome research studies.